Faith: 5
Minato: 6
Noriko: 4, Hyper[3]
Shef: 5, Hyper[R]
Yoake: 4
Yuki: 6, Hyper[4]
Jason Humungus: 4, Hyper[4]
As the whirlwind blooms, you hear something a noise. It sounds like glass breaking, and while not particularly loud it seems to drown everything else out, the Sanctuary
shatters. You are now on a bullet train bound for Tokyo, one is entering a tunnel, and Noriko's head is currently speeding towards the tunnel entrance at three-hundred-and-twenty kilometers per hour.
Faced with a choice between getting shocked and having her face mate with a mass of cement, Noriko just says fuck it and dives right down, nailing Jason's sorry ass against the roof of the train. Unfortunately, there's an awful lock of electricity between him and her, and while her momentum carries her through, and arcs don't hurt
that much, the bullet to the head she receives for her troubles certainly does.
She's flung upwards, slams against the roof of the tunnel and falls back down onto the train a short distance from the electrical storm. Okay yeah, it hurts like a bitch, but still not nearly as much as you'd think a bullet to the head would feel like.
Seeing her flung away, and perhaps importantly, flung safely out of
his range, Shef pulls the trigger. Motherfucker looks at all this supernatural bullshit going on around him and just goes "Fuck it, I'mma cap a bitch", and it works. The bullet skims along, mere milimeters above the ground, sparks striking it over and over again, but as Shef's correctly reduced the bullet doesn't give a shit. With one final portal it streaks upwards, through the jaw, up the roof of the mouth, and detonates.
But that doesn't stop the Executioner. A bullet slams into Yoake as she's pinned by the clusterfuck, a machete swing shatters the already-damaged Rho Aias. He fights on still, and it becoming abundantly clear that though he may be pinned, wounded, and outnumbered, so long as this storm is up, it is he who has the advantage.
Yuki and Minato intend to put an end to that. With the covering fire of the shards cleared courtesy of Faith, the boy sprints forwards, shield melting to slag as he forces it through the storm towards his quarry. Yuki meanwhile lunges forwards, lacking a shield like her ally, she relies on sheer momentum to drive her and her weapon forwards even as she finds herself near paralyzed by the electricity.
You're close. Oh so close. Close to see that the revolver's cylinder is still rotating, still rotating to the next chamber. He won't have the time for another shot. There's an impact, and then an explosion.
The storm is fading now, dying away. And at its center stands Minato stands alone. Mainly because Yuki kinda fell over from the stun after her attack. More importantly, the Aramitama isn't there. At the last minute, he had dashed out along the spear, freeing himself from the pin. Judging by the blood splattering the ground, it wasn't a clean escape.
He's in the air now but it isn't like before. Before when he dashed it was as if he had teleported, as if in an instant, he had moved without moving. Here he's off-balance, tumbling through the air, more as if someone had thrown a ragdoll. His body has basically been blasted apart, no longer one of flesh but of grim curses and dark portents, twisting and shifting in a vaguely humanoid form, a broken hockey mask over a faceless face, a dying star pulsating in his chest as if a heart.
And yet, he continues. He dashes again, this time at Faith, tumbling towards her. He can't be trying to strike, can he? There's no way for him to slash while tumbling, let alone aim with a gun, and with a single step, she could evade him and let him slam into the train roof at her feet. No, he can't be. He's about to cast another spell. Another whirlwind, another storm. Something like that. Something he won't need to aim.
Faith
Status: Fine, HEAVENLY AEGIS
World Line: 3 3 3 2 3 2 2 3 1 4
Alterations: 3
Resolve: 2
Minato
Status: Somewhat hurt
World Line: 6 3 2 6 6 6 6 4 4 3
Alterations: 1
Resolve: 0
Noriko
Status: Severely hurt
World Line: 4 1 2 4 2 2 4 4 4 4
Alterations: 1
Resolve: 1
Shef
Status: Fine, DOUBLE HEAVENLY AEGIS
World Line: 6 2 5 3 1 2 2 4 5 4
Alterations: 3
Resolve: 0
Yoake
Status: Badly hurt, prone
World Line: 3 1 2 2 3 1 1 2 3 2
Alterations: 3
Resolve: 1
Yuki
Status: Badly hurt, prone
World Line: 1 6 2 6 3 6 6 6 3 6
Alterations: 0
Resolve: 0
Jason Humungus
Status: Critical. Nonspecific impairment, he seems a lot less steady on his feet now. Destabilized form, his body has been reduced to a humanoid maelstrom of curses and portents, that from which he had initially arisen.
The Aramitama is very close to Faith. Shef has a bit of distance, Noriko, slightly more. The others are further away, but can still close the distance within a turn if they wish to.
Out of the three people hit, Noriko took the most damage since her defensive stat was the lowest. Yuki was never struck by one of Jason's direct attacks, but just charging into the eye of the storm where it's densest did quite a number on her.
Oh and as you may have deduced, that first unspecified impairment has the effect of making Jason's tumble and crash whenever he dashes, making them far less reliable.
I should also note that not every injury is equal. For instance, Destabilized Form is more severe and requires more damage to inflict.
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Topic: Tengoku no Owari SI IC: Yuki Is (Not) Fine (Read 226896 times)